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Summary: A disappointing edition of a great movie
Review: I really liked both "A Muppet Christmas Carol" and "Muppet Treasure Island". I think the Muppets to a fantastic job adapting literature to the screen in an enjoyable manner and I sincerely wish that they would return to this type of work (especially after the abysmal "Muppets From Space"). HOWEVER -- unlike the first three Muppet movies, the DVDs for "Muppet Treasure Island" and "A Muppet Christmas Carol" contain the "fullscreen" version only. "Fullscreen" is a euphemism for the cropped image, instead of the "widescreen" image (also called "letterbox"). In other words you've lost bits of the image to the left and right of the parts you can see ... and with the Muppets there are always little interesting bits going on _everywhere_ in the image. Kudos for the movies, but a BIG "shame on you" for not releasing the widescreen edition on DVD.
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Summary: Widescreen dilemma
Review: It's a great movie because anyone can watch and enjoy the Muppet's humor anytime in the year. It would be nice if they made a widescreen version though.
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Summary: the muppets christmas carol
Review: this movie is hilarious! i love the part with the ghosts of jacob marley.its nice scrooge ends up nice.i dont' know how jim henson did it!!!
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Summary: Not just for kids!
Review: I love this movie. A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite Christmas movies and the Muppet version is my favorite of them all. Michael Caine is the best Scrooge and very believable. The sets are wonderful and true to the classic Christmas Carol movies. The Muppets inject a unique humor and sometimes you even forget they are Muppets. I especially like the rats working in Scrooges office as accountants. They ask Scrooge for another shovel of coal for the fire. His reply, "How would like to be suddenly UNEMPLOYED!" They don grass skirts and sing, "It's a tropical heat wave..." You'll love it. Oh, and your kids will too.
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Summary: Where's the widescreen??
Review: This is one of our family favorites. A wonderful telling of the story. We also have a laser disc version in widescreen. Sadly Disney nor Amazon.commention that this dvd version is pan and scan. So I dutifully bought mine, assuming the best. I'm disappointed that Disney didn't go the extra ten yards and either put both editions on the disk or offer a widescreen. The pan and scan loses so much of the visual power. C'mon Walt! Quality counts. But you got me, now I'll have to pay you once more.
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Summary: One of the best versions of A Christmas Carol!
Review: I LOVE this movie! I can't let a Christmas pass without watching it 3 or 4 times! I have even been known to watch it in the middle of summer! The dialog by Scrooge and the other characters closely follow the book. What adds to this story, however, is the running commentary by Rizzo and Gonzo as Charles Dickens. Sure, they take license by adding a second Marley, but it seems natural, and by changing names of stores - Fozziwig & Mom's, for instance - but it only personalizes it and makes it all the more entertaining. The music is excellent and there is so much emotion in this movie - much more than in any other version I have seen! I really think that this movie is by far one of the best Muppet movies I have seen. I only wish Jim Henson had been alive to voice Kermit (although he was done superbly!) and to see the end result!
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Summary: A wonderful Christmas tale
Review: The lovable Muppets put their own spin on Dicken's classic Christmas story. Kermit plays Tim Cratchet, and Miss Piggy is Mrs. Cratchet. This is a wonderful edition that should appeal to adult fans of the book as well as children just discovering the story. I am very pleased to see it is finally available on DVD to enjoy at any time. With several amusing and memorable songs, and wonderful characterizations including a fine rendition of Scrooge by Micael Caine, it's a movie to treasure not only at Christmas, but at any time of year when we need a little reminder of what the holiday season is truly all about.
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Summary: Where is the 'missing song;?
Review: I love this movie. So where is the song 'When love has gone' which Belle sings to a young scrooge which was in the video and film version. I bought my DVD in England so is the American version any different? Some of the customer reviews only mention that the film is in pan and scan and not widescreen but never that a song is missing. Is then the UK version different from the American? Has anybody any answers? By the way I would love to give this film 5 stars but my DVD copy only merits three stars!
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Summary: Odd with the muppets, but the best by far!
Review: Sure, the muppets mixed in with a Christmas classic it does sound sort of strange, but it works out beautifully! While this story is warped into too many emotionally sterile versions(like Scrooge, in the seventies or so, Mrs. Cratchet wasn't even mourning Tiny Tim! Albert Finney Could NOT act and the music, most of it, was terrible!)this one really focuses on the humanity of the story and characters. Human emotions were finally shown! Michael Caine was excellent as Scrooge. The love between him and Belle was really believable(when he joins her at the end of her song, you can tell he has repeated her parting words ever since; he MUST have loved her!). Emily Cratchet was finally mourning her son(THATS what a real mother would do!), and Bob Cratchet's speech about being parted from a loved one is a fact of life is one of the most touching moments. The score to the movie, why didn't they make a soundtrack?! They each tie into their scenes so well that if they were removed, it would just be missing something; When love is gone is one of the saddest, most beautiful love ballads ever heard and its sequence is equally heartbreaking; no wonder Scrooge (and Rizzo)was crying when Belle left, he must have loved Belle very much and seeing it happen again...it would break the hardest heart, it did with me, and I'm 17 and hardened through and through, although I do care about others! I just can't go past that scene; its too much! This movie is just SO touching! I highly recommend it!
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Summary: What was Disney thinking?
Review: Be forwarned by the warning on the DVD case, "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your TV." Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island are wonderful films, possibly the best Muppet movies, AND they were released in widescreen to the theatres with lots of delightful imagery in those outer regions. So what does Disney do for DVD? Releases them in fullscreen, cutting off about 1/3 of the picture. If you like looking at half of Muppet heads, then these are for you. But what a stupid statement that warning is. Widescreen fits my TV, too, guys. The Muppet Movie, The Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan and Muppets From Space are all double-sided DVD releases, with widescreen on one side and fullscreen on the other side, released in excellent transfers by Columbia Tristar. I think Disney needs to re-release these as double-sided disks. If this "reformatting" is Disney policy, I can't wait to see how they screw up the magnificent 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea when they finally release that!
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